TV and art films: Feb. 10-16

For the week of Sunday, Feb. 10, through Saturday, Feb. 16.

Reviewed by Tony Lucia.

Vintage RKO. One of the most legendary of Golden Age Hollywood studios, RKO was over the course of its three decades responsible for a ridiculous number of classic films. But don't take my word for it; see for yourself over several days this week on Turner Classic Movies. Some highlights:

Damsels in Distress (2012). Whit Stillman's first film since his 1990s heyday retains the smart dialogue and yupwardly mobile characters familiar from the likes of "Metropolitan" and "The Last Days of Disco." And a game Greta Gerwig fits right in as the leader of a small group of college roomies who is given to endlessly articulated opinions and "youth outreach" among her peers, but who turns out to be not nearly as self-assured as she pretends. Oddly enough, the film seems less a flashback to the '90s than to the 1950s or '60s, with the girls' old-school frocks and its jokes about the intellectual limits of frat boys. Perhaps most distressing, what once seemed bracing in his work now verges on self-parody. But there's still a beating heart. 6:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday on Starz Comedy.